Bundle of tie wires



June 19, 1928. 1,674,311

P. WRIGHT BUNDLE OF TIE WIRES Original Filed Dec. 50, 1921 RM, might E? 7 v by Inventor Attorney Patented June 19, 1928.

UNETD? STAT gzg pf'iijf ranvm WRIGHT, or CHICAGO, rumors, ASSIGNOR 'IO .eLno J. eniannnn, or CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

BUNDLE OF TIE WIRES.

Original application file d December 30, 1921. Serial No. 526,046. Divided and this application filed December 7, 1922.

This invention relates to an article of manufacture consisting of a bundle of tie wires, ready for shipment, and has for its object to provide an article of this kind which will simple in construction, comparatively 1116K- pensive to manufacture, and better adapted for shipment than those which have been heretofore proposed.

With these and otherobjects in view, the

invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations of parts constituting the article, all as will be more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claims.

This invention is a division of my prior application #526,046, filed December 30, 1921, allowed November 17, 1922, and entitled lv Iachine for capping bundles of tie wires. Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views:

Figure 1 represents a metallic cap detached from the bundle which is used inprotecting its ends; I

Figure 2 shows one end of the bundle of tie wires with the cap in place;

Figure 3 shows a sectional view of the parts shown in Figure 2;

1 Figure 4 is a diagrammatic sectional View of a portion of the mechanism employed in securingthe cap in place on the bundle of wires;

Figure 5 is a view of a modified form of Figure 6 shows a bundle of tie wires with the caps illustrated in Figure 5 in place on each end thereof; and

Figure 7 is asectional view of one end of the bundle of wires shown in Figure 6.

1 indicates a bundle of steel tie wires used Serial No. 605,408.

difficult to ship to the place of use, unless their ends are well protected. Prior to this invention, it was customary to tie fabric material around the ends of these bundles, and to ship the same in this condition. But owing to the steel material out of which the.

caps were caused to enclose the ends of the bundles 1, whereupon a cone shaped member 4, see Figure 4, was'by suitable mechanism brought into contact with the extreme ends 5 of the caps and crimped said ends down tightly against the body of the bundles 1, so that the finished end of the-bundle was securely enclosedin a metal cap and presented .the appearance shown in Figure 2. On the other hand,'the' enlargedends 20f the individual wireswere afforded ample room on theinside 6 of the caps 3, while the crimped down portions? of said caps were located be hindsaid enlarged ends 2, and thus were the metallic caps 3 held firmly in place on the bundles 1 during shipment, and the ends of the bundles prevented from injuring other objects, as well as savedfrom being injured themselves. tion, the caps 3 were preferably provided. with the slitted rims indicated at 8, so that when the metal was once firmly crimped into, place through the action of the beveled edge 9 of the crimping members 4 they were firmly held in place until forcibly removed at the place of use.

In the somewhat modified form of the invention shown in Figure 5, the caps 10 are made cone shaped as illustrated and are provided with the cylindrical portions 11 which are slit as in the previous case, to facilitate the crimping action. These caps are crimped into place'by a machine, the same as, or similar to, that shown in my said original application, and by a mechanism,

substantially the same as that illustrated in Figure 4.

In both the forms of the invention, it will To facilitate the crimping acbe clear that there is provided a bundle of steel tie wires having both of its ends securely protected with metal caps and having a considerable weight, and whose ends when uncapped are liable to be injured and to cause injury during shipment. It will also be clear that by securing the body portions of these bundles together, as by the wire bands 15, the wires are-all so firmly bound together that the bundle in shipment takes on the-nature of a solid bar with its ends protected, and therefore, all the troubles encountered in transit prior to this invention are eliminated.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction, as well as the arrangement of parts, Without departing from the spirit of the invention, and therefore it is not desired to be limited to the above disclosure except as may be required by the claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A commercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of package-binding elements all of which are usable as such, and means encasing the ends of the elements forming said bundle and fixedly retained thereon by certain of said elements to prevent endwise movement of said elements relatively to each other.

2. Acommercial bundle composed of a multiplicity of pachagebinding wires all of which are usable as such, substantially all the Wires composing said bundle being uniform as tov length, and means encasing the ends of said wires forming the bundle and in abutting contact with the individual Wires thereof, said end-encasing means being fixed ly retained by certain of said elements on the end portion of the bundle to prevent endwise movement of the individual wires relatively to each other.

3. A commercial package formed of bun- 5. Bundled wire comprising individual pieces substantially uniform as to length, and encasing means positioned upon an end portion of the bundle, that portion of the encasing means remote to the extreme end of said bundle being contracted upon the bundle and into frictional contact therewith.

6,. As a new article of manufacture, a bundle composed of a plurality of binder tie wires of substantially equal length and having their end portions deformed, where by the end portion'of'the bundle is of larger circumference than the body portion, and a protecting cap member engaging over the enlarged end portion of the bundle, said cap having a portion thereof crimped about the smaller body portion of the bundle adjacent the enlargedend portion thereof to thereby retain said cap member in place on the end of the bundle. I l

7. As a new article of manufacture, a

bundle of tie wires, said bundle having an enlarged end portion, and a protecting cap telescoped over the enlarged end portion of the bundle and crimped around the bundle closely adjacent the enlarged end portion to be thereby retained in place.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

- PARVIN WRIGHT. 

